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Marmora et adfines aliquos lapides coloribus svis exprimi / curavit et edidit Adamus Ludovicus Wirsing = Abbildungen der Marmor-Arten und einiger verwandten Steine nach der Natur auf das sorgfältigste mit Farben erleuchtet / gestochen und herausgegeben durch Adam Ludwig Wirsing...

by: Wirsing, Adam Ludwig, 1733-1797

Publication date: 1775

Topics: Marble--Germany, Marble--Early works to 1800

Publisher: Auf Kosten des Verlegers

Collection: gialibrary; additional_collections

Language: Latin; German

Item Size: 657.5M

Summary: "Magnificent, outstanding color-plate book of the Mineral Kingdom, depicting an almost infinitely-varied series of marbles and allied ornamental stones from deposits in Germany and nearby countries...The accompanying text provides brief descriptions and in places footnotes in Latin & German, with locality and an indication in feet of the sizes of the unbroken rock sections that can be removed from the quarries concerned."--Gemology by J. Sinkankas, entry no. 7281.

Latin and German in parallel columns.